@matthew@social.retroedge.tech
2026-07-17 03:14 UTC
I installed LXQt desktop on my laptop, as I have been using it on a desktop for a while.
Artix by default using the Openbox window manager with LXQt instead of the xfwm4 that Devuan bundles with LXQt.
So some of the shortcut key configuration is slightly different.
Eventually, I'll get around to pairing BSPWM with LXQt, as I think that'd be fun. For right now, I'm running cortile which maximizes the windows automatically with the default I have.
For right now, I can say that LXQt is much lighter on resources than Cinnamon on the same machine. Cinnamon on Artix seemed to be much more of a resource hog than Cinnamon on Debian and Devuan based Linux systems.
But with LXQt, it just sips instead of gulps.
#Linux #Artix #LXQt
Replies (2)
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@RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-07-17 03:19
@matthew@social.retroedge.tech LXQt is very light. I like it. I have it on an old HP Cloud book (the blue ones) with 4GB of ram and some POS Celeron. It's pretty snappy in spite of the hardware. Plasma was noticeably bad on the same hardware. I can't remember what compositor Alpine installs. Might be labwc. It's been many months... Should fire it up and at least update.
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@surfhosting@mastodon.pirateparty.be 2026-07-17 05:19
@matthew@social.retroedge.tech my first customization task (well, after figuring out the missing start button icon in Debian 13) is gonna be to disable auto display size adjustment when it's running in a VM and the remote SPICE window changes sizes.